Papa Rao: So, he’s just a step away from joining his gang.

Veeraiah: Who knows by my next visit, he would’ve gone underground. Well we all have to keep an eye on him.

Muthyal Rao: Don’t worry Veeraiah, leave that to me.

Veeraiah: It will surely make my job easy. Yellostha dora.

[Exit: Veeraiah.]

Shaukar Suryam: Dora, won’t that explain Narsigadu’s impudence?

Papa Rao: Now it’s high time our dora gets tough with him.

Muthyal Rao: Let Yelligadu come and then see the tamaasha.

Shaukar Suryam: But why is there no sign of him yet?

Papa Rao: Who knows if Narsigadu cared to tell him at all?

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Muthyal Rao: Maybe it’s possible. It’s as if the rascal is already putting on naxal airs.

Papa Rao: If we fail to act now, it might even send wrong signals to them.

Shaukar Suryam: Why, it will be surely taken as our weakness.

Muthyal Rao: Why not I send my men to drag them here together.

Papa Rao: Better we make an example of both of them in their own backyard dora. That would send the right signals to one and all.

Shaukar Suryam: What do you say about that dora?

Muthyal Rao[Gets up]: Come, let’s nip it in the bud. [He gets up.]

[Exit: Others too get up. Curtains down.]

Scene – 11

[Curtains up: Yellaiah’s hut of scene -1 in the dalit mohalla.]

[Enter: Muthyal Rao, Papa Rao and Sahukar Suryam with their walking sticks and their henchmen.]

Papa Rao: Orey Yelliga.

Yellaiah [From inside]: Dandaalu Patel garu.

[Enter: Yellaiah with folded hands.]

Yellaiah: Why take the trouble of coming here dora. You could’ve sent word to me.

Muthyal Rao: Yera, didn’t Narsigadu tell you?

Yellaiah: He told me nothing dora.

Muthyal Rao: Where’s that rascal?

Yellaiah: He left in the morning dora, I don’t know where to.

Muthyal Rao [Raising the walking stick]: Jhootakor,don’t tell lies, tell us where he is.

Yellaiah: Believe me dora,I really don’t know where he has gone. Please tell me what’s wrong with him, and I will set him right.

Sahukar Suryam: Dora, if only we set right the father, the son gets it right, won’t he?

[Muthyal Rao strikes Yellaiah with his walking stick followed by Papa Rao and Sahukar Suryam: As Yellaiah falls on the ground, they beat him still, hurling abuses at him. All the while the terrified onlookers watch helplessly.]

Muthyal Rao: Yedava naayaala,if you want to stay here, send your son to the gadi.

[Enter: Sarakka from outside, and goes to Yellaiah.]




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